#sea floor

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Spanish Dancer (SOURCE)

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" B U D D I E S " //© jferraragallery

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Pictures of Pomegranate will continue until (my) moral improves.

Pose reference from @adorkastock

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rainbow — for the single-word drive!

"If only you could see yourself as I see you. The beauty of your stirring aether- dancing upon the winds and oh so stunning with unbridled happiness. It reminds me of home... where the greens in the jungle were vibrant and aether abundant. Full of life and free to do as nature pleases. I see you not just for you, but also for the raging tempest within. The deep ocean of uncertainty that you've rised above, despite the relentless tides. Life is not always an easy road, and while yours is still being navigated I want you to know you've come so far and I am proud, my love. You are real, we are real. Isn't that wonderful? This is more than just a dream"

A Vieran love letter from Ris, to her dearly beloved @qara-wen. Full of love and affirmations to keep him grounded while she is away.

Ris is gifted with a form of aethersight that can read the emotions of one's aether, which makes for very lovely imagery. Sometimes, just the sight of two lovers in an embrace, or friends having a hearty laugh is beautiful enough to move her to tears; being able to see how souls interact with one another in a rainbow of color is truly mesmerizing to her.

How would your OC's aether look to her?

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in the deep ocean there are things called brine pools, which are essentially lakes of water separate from the ocean water. they're formed when water seeping through the ocean floor mixes with salt deposits, so the actual brine pools themselves are too salty and too toxic for most things to live in. but because they're so mineral rich, there's a bunch of really cool things living around them!

some examples include mussels, crabs, echinoderms, and sea cucumbers.

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Titanic graves in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Many bodies were never found.

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I’ve found a few examples of these fossil splotches from what I assume was something attached to a reef or at the sea floor, but I have no idea what they could be and it’s like an itch I can’t scratch

I’m guessing they come from different things, but they’re similar enough that I’m grouping them together as the Mysterious Splotches for now

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(CNN) — What was supposed to be a 10-hour journey to the Titanic shipwreck ended in tragedy, with all five passengers on the missing submersible killed in a catastrophic implosion.

Their deaths were confirmed Thursday, concluding a week-long search for survivors that was closely watched around the world.

The US Navy detected a sound that would match an implosion on Sunday, the day it went missing, and search teams have since found fragments of the Titan submersible, confirming those on board have perished.

But many questions still remain as authorities continue searching for debris, including when the implosion happened and what exactly went wrong with the sub.

Here’s what we know so far.

What is a catastrophic implosion?

An underwater implosion refers to the sudden inward collapse of the vessel, which would have been under immense pressure at the depths it was diving toward.

It’s unclear where or how deep the Titan was when the implosion occurred, but the Titanic wreck sits nearly 13,000 feet (almost 4,000 meters) below sea level.

The submersible was about 1 hour and 45 minutes into the roughly 2 hour descent when it lost contact.

At the depth the Titanic rests, there is around 5,600 pounds per square inch of pressure – several hundred times the pressure we experience on the surface, according to Rick Murcar, the international training director at the National Association of Cave Divers.

A catastrophic implosion is “incredibly quick,” taking place within just a fraction of a millisecond, said Aileen Maria Marty, a former Naval officer and professor at Florida International University.

“The entire thing would have collapsed before the individuals inside would even realize that there was a problem,” she told CNN. “Ultimately, among the many ways in which we can pass, that’s painless.”

Experts say it is unlikely any bodies will be recovered.

The US Coast Guard said Thursday it will continue the search in an effort to recover what it can but warned it was “an incredibly unforgiving environment down there on the sea floor.”

What’s next for the search effort?

Besides searching for the passengers, authorities will also continue to search the sea floor in hopes of discovering more information about what led to the implosion.

It will take time to put together a specific timeline of events, the US Coast Guard said Thursday, calling the underwater environment “incredibly complex.”

So far, they have located the Titan’s nose cone and one end of its pressure hulls in a large debris field, and the other end of the pressure hull in a second, smaller debris field.

“What they would do now is go back to that site and, like cookie crumbs, try to find a trail as to where that would lead,” said Tom Maddox, CEO of Underwater Forensic Investigators, who took part in a Titanic expedition in 2005.

He added that the debris pieces could still be “slightly buoyant” and be carried further away by ocean currents.

“So the big project right now is going to be trying to collect those parts,” he said.

“They’ll mark them, they’ll indicate where they were, and they’ll lay out a map of where those parts were found.”

What is the timeline of the disaster?

The expedition set out from Newfoundland, Canada, on June 16, with the Polar Prince support ship carrying participants to the site of the Titanic wreck.

Then on Sunday, June 18, the five passengers began the dive in the submersible, launched from the support ship, which remained on the surface.

They began the dive around 9 a.m., with their last communication to the surface at 11:47 a.m, according to Miawpukek Maritime Horizon Services, which co-owns the Polar Prince.

They were expected to resurface at 6:10 p.m. but were not seen; authorities were notified at 6:35 p.m. and the rescue operations launched, according to Maritime Horizon.

There seemed to be a brief window of hope after reports emerged that search teams on Tuesday heard banging every 30 minutes, though they were unable to locate the source of the noise.

But the submersible had only been equipped with 96 hours of oxygen, setting Thursday as a key target to locate and retrieve the submersible.

By Thursday afternoon, authorities confirmed the submersible had imploded, saying there does not seem to be a connection between the banging noises and where the debris was found.

A senior US Navy official told CNN the noises were likely some form of natural life or sounds given off by other ships and vessels that were part of the search effort.

It’s still not clear when exactly the vessel may have imploded.

The Navy detected a sound that was “consistent” with an implosion on Sunday, but it was determined to be “not definitive,” so the search for survivors or remains of the vessel continued.

The US Coast Guard said on Thursday it had set up sonar buoys in the water for at least the last 72 hours – meaning from at least Monday onward – but they did not record any sign of an implosion.

Who was on board?

The five men on board included the CEO of the tour operator, a British businessman, a renowned French diver, and a Pakisatani billionaire and his son.

OceanGate Expeditions, the Titan’s operator, said Thursday it believed CEO Stockton Rush and the other passengers to be “lost,” adding that the company’s employees were “exhausted and grieving deeply over this loss.”

Rush, 61, founded OceanGate in 2009 with a stated mission of “increasing access to the deep ocean through innovation.”

In a series of interviews, Rush said he believes deeply that the sea, rather than the sky, offers humanity the best shot at survival when the Earth’s surface becomes uninhabitable.

As CEO, Rush, who graduated from Princeton in 1984 with a degree in aerospace engineering, oversaw the company’s “financial and engineering strategies” and provides a “vision for development” of crewed submersibles, according to his bio.

But in his eagerness to explore, Rush often appeared skeptical, if not dismissive, of regulations that might slow innovation.

British businessman and adventurer Hamish Harding was also on board.

Based in the United Arab Emirates, he was the chairman of Action Aviation, an aircraft brokerage – but was better known for his various expeditions.

He was part of a flight crew that broke the world record for the fastest circumnavigation of the globe via both poles;

He was one of the first people to dive to the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean, widely believed to be the deepest point in the world’s oceans;

He went to space on the Blue Origin flight; and

He was part of two record-breaking trips to the South Pole.

French diver Paul-Henri “PH” Nargeolet had decades of experience exploring the Titanic.

He served as the director of underwater research at RMS Titanic Inc., the company that has exclusive rights to salvage artifacts from the ship.

According to his biography on the company’s website, Nargeolet completed 35 dives to the Titanic wreck and supervised the recovery of 5,000 artifacts.

He also spent 22 years in the French Navy.

In a statement, his family called him one of the greatest deep-sea explorers in history, adding:

“But what we will remember him most for is his big heart, his incredible sense of humor and how much he loved his family.”

Lastly, Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman Dawood, were from a prominent Pakistani business family.

Dawood Hercules Corp., their business, is among the largest corporations in the country, with a portfolio spanning energy, petrochemicals, fertilizers, information technology, and food and agriculture.

In a statement online, the family patriarch Hussain Dawood and his wife, Kulsum Dawood, said:

“Please continue to keep the departed souls and our family in your prayers during this difficult period of mourning.”

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Anglerfish on the move (SOURCE)

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The "fairy lantern" is an otherworldly species of bioluminescent plant that doesn’t need the Sun to make energy. Instead, it parasites other underground organisms.

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It's been a while since I have draw mermaid Juniper AU.

Pose reference from @adorkastock, but I can't find where I found the image, so go check out her sketch app cause it is excellent!

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Spotted !! Enjoying some coral after he got hit with the shrimpification beam ! (Image by joakant from Pixabay)

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contrary to popular belief, the surface of the ocean IS NOT flat! it's not curved according to the curve of the earth, either. the surface of the ocean, ever so slightly, is the shape of the ocean floor beneath it! that means if there's a valley under the ocean, the surface will have a dip in it, and if there's an underwater mountain, the surface of the ocean will have a bump in it.

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